Winkler, a professor of law at UCLA, provides a lively, fascinating and timely account of the campaign of American businesses to gain constitutional protections in what he deems one of the most successful, yet often overlooked “civil rights movements” in our history.

My Old Faithful

By Yang Huang

(University of Massachusetts Press; 184 pages; $19.95 paperback)

East Bay author Huang’s collection of linked stories zooms readers straight into the minds and hearts of each member of a middle-class family in a struggling, censored, restricted China.